The Matthews Podcast

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Matthews Real Estate Investment Services™, a commercial real estate investment services and technology firm, presents the Matthews™ Podcast. A podcast dedicated to providing you with professional insight on the latest news, trends, and topics impacting the commercial real estate industry. The podcast delves into the world of commercial real estate, arming brokers, investors, developers, leasing agents, and capital market professionals with the information necessary to take their business to the next level. Matthews™ redefines what clients expect by accelerating the evolution of how the commercial real estate industry services clients through technology. The firm holds recognition as an industry leader in investment sales, leasing, and debt and structured finance. Strategically position with over 400 real estate professional in 13 offices across the United States, Matthews™ continues to expand into new markets. For more information, please visit https://www.matthews.com/.

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May 13, 202630 min

Mark Leverette on Navigating Risk, Operations, and the Role of AI

Behind every strong real estate decision is a clear understanding of the numbers.As Managing Partner of Client Accounting & Advisory Services at BPM, Mark Leverette helps real estate owners, funds, and operators understand what their numbers are actually telling them. His work sits at the intersection of accounting, advisory, technology, and strategy, giving him a front-row view into where firms get stuck and what separates organized operators from those still relying on outdated systems.In this episode, Leverette discusses why clean reporting matters, how better data can sharpen underwriting and decision-making, and what real estate companies should be thinking about as automation and AI become more embedded in daily operations.

April 15, 202641 min

How Fiber Infrastructure Drives NOI in Multifamily with Adam Bell

Most entrepreneurs build by chasing trends. Adam Bell built by noticing what was broken.Long before launching Internet Subway, Bell was identifying gaps in systems, whether in web development, computer repair, managed services, or telecom. Over time, that instinct led him into multifamily real estate, where he saw a major disconnect: internet had become one of the most important services in a resident’s daily life, but at most properties, it was still being treated like an afterthought.Now, as CEO of Internet Subway, Bell works with owners to turn connectivity into a strategic asset. In this episode, he explains how owner-controlled internet infrastructure can improve the resident experience, streamline operations, and unlock meaningful value at the property level. He also reflects on the mindset that shaped his career and why curiosity, more than anything else, has been the constant behind every venture he has built.

February 18, 202640 min

Bo Kemp on the Strategic Advantage in Regional Development

How do you actually build the future of a region when the biggest projects require decades of planning, political alignment, and infrastructure that cannot be improvised? In today’s environment, that is the real question facing economic development.Bo Kemp is one of the leaders working at that intersection. As CEO of the Southland Development Authority, he focuses on positioning Chicago’s Southland for large-scale investment by aligning municipalities, capital, and the long-term infrastructure needed to compete for major projects. In this conversation, Kemp explains why demand is accelerating for next-generation industrial uses like data centers, and why the limiting factor is powered land with the utilities, infrastructure, and workforce needed to operate at scale. He also outlines the Southland’s advantage through access to two electrical grids, including PJM, and why that matters as power becomes a deciding factor in where development can happen.

February 4, 202632 min

Jeff Enck on Southeast Shopping Center Trends

In this episode of The Matthews™ Podcast, host Matthew Wallace continues the publication takeover series with Part 3 of the National Shopping Center Overview, breaking down the Mid-Atlantic with Matthews™ Senior Vice President Jeff Enck.With 25+ years in retail investment sales and hundreds of transactions closed across the Southeast, Enck explains why strip centers have become one of the most competitive pockets of retail today—and how his Strip Center Roundtable is bringing together many of the nation’s largest owners to compare notes on strategy, leasing, and the outlook for the sector.Wallace and Enck dive into what’s driving Southeast momentum, from population and job growth across major metros to rising interest in select secondary markets as buyers search for yield. They also unpack the “essential service retail” tenant mix that’s powering strip performance, along with why today’s biggest challenge isn’t demand, but simply finding enough product to buy.

January 28, 202638 min

The Operational Edge in Workforce Housing with Amy Rubenstein

In this episode of The Matthews™ Podcast, host Matthew Wallace sits down with Amy Rubenstein, CEO of Clear Investment Group, to break down what it really takes to remedy and revitalize distressed workforce housing—the kind of multifamily most groups won’t touch because of operational chaos, stakeholder complexity, and heavy lift-to-stabilization execution. Drawing on more than two decades in commercial real estate, Amy explains Clear’s “value restoration” approach to market-rate workforce housing, targeting underperforming properties in strong, stable markets and rebuilding them into safe, working communities. She also shares how Clear leans on data and AI to tighten underwriting, improve due diligence, and improve day-to-day performance, including operational policy changes informed by delinquency trends and resident payment behavior.

January 7, 202636 min

Mid-Atlantic Shopping Center Trends with Ed Laycox

In this episode of The Matthews™ Podcast, host Matthew Wallace continues the publication takeover series with Part 2 of the National Shopping Center Overview, breaking down the Mid-Atlantic with Matthews™ Executive Vice President Ed Laycox.With more than two decades in retail investment sales and 200+ transactions closed, Laycox unpacks what’s driving activity in the Mid-Atlantic today, including where capital is flowing, how suburban growth is reshaping buyer profiles, and why grocery-anchored centers remain a leading investment thesis.Wallace and Laycox also dig into evolving consumer and tenant trends, from necessity-based retail to higher-rent experiential users, and how navigating “bumpy” capital markets is increasing the importance of creative deal structure and execution.

December 17, 202527 min

How Automation is Rebuilding Real Estate with Will Mitchell

In this episode of The Matthews™ Podcast, host Matthew Wallace welcomes Will Mitchell, CEO and co-founder of Rabbet, to unpack how construction finance is being modernized and how lenders and developers are moving beyond spreadsheets, PDFs, and email chains into a more connected, data-driven workflow.”Drawing on his background as a developer and entrepreneur, Will shares hard-earned lessons on building tech that actually gets adopted in a traditionally slow-moving industry, where disciplined execution, customer trust, and smart automation (including AI) can make the difference between friction and real scale.

December 11, 202530 min

West Coast Shopping Center Trends with Matt LoPiccolo

In this episode of The Matthews™ Podcast, host Matthew Wallace kicks off the publication takeover series with the National Shopping Center Report, breaking down the West Coast market with Matthews™ Senior Vice President Matt LoPiccolo.With deep experience across West Coast retail investment sales, LoPiccolo explains what is driving deals today, from cost of capital and cap rate movement to how leasing costs, execution risk, and tighter financing conditions are reshaping the value-add playbook.Wallace and LoPiccolo also examine pressures influencing underwriting across the region, including rising operating expenses, tax reassessment impacts, rent resets, and post-COVID build-to-suit rent levels ,and what those trends signal for the next phase of retail on the West Coast.

November 20, 20251 hr 27 min

Matthews™ Exclusive: Jeff Enck's 2025 Strip Center Roundtable

Retail is changing fast. Get the inside edge from Jeff Enck’s annual Strip Center Roundtable, a high-energy discussion on market shifts, demand drivers, and opportunities ahead.0:00:00 Introduction by Jeff Enck0:01:32 Panel Introduction0:06:54 Discussion1:27:32 Outro

November 5, 202527 min

The Legal Infrastructure of Sports-Anchored Districts with Keven Rowe

In this episode of The Matthews Podcast, host Matthew Wallace sits down with Keven Rowe, shareholder at Buckhalter PC and one of the nation’s leading commercial real estate attorneys.With over two decades of advising on billions of dollars in transactions, Keven unpacks the evolving world of sports-anchored mixed-use districts, from Salt Lake City’s new entertainment hub to national projects redefining how teams and cities grow together.Through stories of collaboration between developers, governments, and communities, Keven reveals how smart policy, disciplined financing, and shared vision turn stadiums into catalysts for long-term urban vitality.